Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1894 — Order as a Fetich. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Order as a Fetich.

Harper's Bazar. A house in which there is no orderly routine is a very uncomfortable place, no doubt, but too much order may be equally disagreeable and wearing, the nerves of the family being rasped as were those of the people who lived with R. Wilfer’s wife. People to whom order is not the means to a desired end, but the end itself, give themselves and others a great deal of nervous trouble. A chair or a book out of place distresses them- A blur on the window pane drives them to distraction unless they can at once remove it. A meal slightly delayed beyond the ■appointed hour loses for them its savor. Order is their fetich. In vain their friends beg them to be philosophical, to try elasticity as a sort of buffer against annoyances. They shake their heads wearily, and keep on fretting. And the fretting marks their foreheads and indents their lips and writes its record on their faces, while husbands and children sigh for a little cheerful happy -go • lucky disorder. The daughter of the over-orderly mother is often, by the law of reaction, -an absurdly unsystematic personage.

JAMES I. OF SCOTLAND, SLAIN BY SIB ROBERT GRAHAM AT PERTH, 1437.